hey guys so i use fedora currently in my laptop but i want to try some other distros too. But dont wanna switch completely to that distro , its mainly for tinkering u can say.
so i want to dual boot arch in my laptop but i dont have a solid idea of how to do this and couldnt find any very helpful tutorial on yt and other places.
so if anyone of u have a solid idea about this pls dm me .
thanks .
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Arch isn't too difficult, I've run it before on my older computers. If you're worried about messing up the install, EndeavorOS (which is Arch based) offers a simple graphical installer and gives you a few guides, especially on how to install Nvidia drivers if you have their GPUs.
Can confirm, I use Arch btw. If you’re uncomfortable with a text-based installer I recommend Manjaro (also Arch-based), which I used during college.
Luckily Nvidia GPU support is improving but AMD is still recommended.
You can try Debian if you like. I'm running Debian for more than 10y now.
To make it dual boot, you need to create a new partition on the harddisk first.
Than make a bootable USB with Debian.
Install Debian on your new partition and when it ask for the GRUB bootloader to be installed. You have 2 options:
- keep your current bootloader, and check if it automatically recognizes Debian also.
- Install GRUB bootloader. GRUB will definitely detect Fedora and Debian.
When you startup your laptop after this, you can choose which distro you want to boot.
Ok so for duel booting, if you make another partion on your disk and install your second distro without overwriting your grub (please make sure that the second distro does not touch your EFI partion by manually telling it where to install or in arch's case, just not installing a bootloader). Then booting back to your main OS you have to edit your grub install config to enable OS prober and then tell grub to reconfigure itself. I cant explain how to do this because I have to go soon but there is YouTube tutorials probably if you just look up how to use OS prober in grub :D also make sure your EFI is mounted to /boot before trying to update grub config! Some distros do this automatically and some don't and the grub config updater either will complain or won't work otherwise. Anyway adding more to the rant, all of this is possible without OS-prober with GRUB but it's more of a pain and especially hard for newer uses. Good luck and feel free to message if you get stuck :D